The body of work known as If You Are Busy with Banana, Then How Could You Eat Apple is developed using photography, collage, drawing, soil-based pigments and sculptural assemblage. I explore the entanglement of fruit as material and metaphor by using banana peels, prints, and wax models as a recurring motif.The banana, which has long been associated with the politics of exploitation and the world economy of so-called banana republics, here is a site of reflection on consumption, desire, and political domination. The playful and disturbing banana/apple juxtaposition questions the way our attention, our choices, our appetites are controlled--how a single fruit, a single story, a single economy, can take over at the expense of another.

I create images that border on humor and criticism through overlaying processes: black-and-white photographs, overpainted gestures using water-based pigments combined with powdered soil, and fragments that I glue together in collage. The banana peel as a disposable object and a symbol at the same time is an embodiment of the weakness, waste and absurdity of political spectacle. The apple, on the contrary, is presented as a possibility withheld, a possibility that cannot be eaten when one is busy with the other.

This piece of work is placed in the conflict between the ordinary and the geopolitical. The series encourages the audience to consider how the politics of the world permeate the everyday without much notice, by reworking the banal image of fruit into a metaphor of control, dependency, and displacement, to ask what we eat, what we appreciate, and what we neglect.